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PUBLIC LAW 96-000—MMMM. DD, 1980

PUBLIC LAW 96-487—DEC. 2, 1980

94 STAT. 2471

(2) to provide for the rational and orderly development of economic resources within the region in an environmentally sound manner; (3) to provide for such exchanges of land among the Federal Government, the State, and other public or private owners as will facilitate the carrying out of paragraphs (1) and (2); (4) to identify any further lands within the region which are appropriate for selections by the State under section 6 of the Alaska Statehood Act and this Act; and (5) to identify any further lands within the region which may be appropriate for congressional designation as national conservation system units. (c) FEDERAL-STATE COOPERATION IN PREPARATION OF PLANS.—(1) If

within three months after the date of enactment of this Act, the Governor notifies the Secretary that the State wishes to participate in the preparation of the plan, and that the Governor will, to the extent of his authority, manage State lands within the region to conserve fish and wildlife during such preparation, the Secretary and the Governor shall undertake to prepare the plan which shall contain such provisions as are necessary and appropriate to achieve the purposes set forth in subsection (b), including but not limited to— (A) the identification of the significant resources of the region; (B) the identification of present and potential uses of land within the region; (C) the identification of areas within the region according to their significant resources and the present or potential uses within each such area; (D) the identification of land (other than any land within the National Park System) which should be exchanged in order to facilitate the conserving offish and wildlife and the management and development of other resources within the region; and (E) the specification of the uses which may be permitted in each area identified under paragraph (C) and the manner in which these uses shall be regulated by the Secretary or the State, as appropriate, if such plan is approved. (2) The plan shall also— (A) specify those elements of the plan, and its implementation, which the Secretary or the Governor: (i) may modify without prior approval of both parties to the plan; and (ii) may not modify without such prior approval; and (B) include a description of the procedures which will be used to make modifications to which paragraph (A)(i) applies. (d) ACTION BY SECRETARY IF STATE DOES NOT PARTICIPATE IN PLAN.—If—

(1) the Secretary does not receive notification under subsection (c) that the State will participate in the preparation of the plan; or (2) after the State agrees to so participate, the Governor submits to the Secretary written notification that the State is terminating its participation; the Secretary shall prepare a plan containing the provisions referred Cooperative to in subsection (c)(1) (and containing a specification of those elements management in the plan which the Secretary may modify without prior approval of fo CongreTs Congress), and submit copies of such plan to the Congress, as provided in subsection (e)(2), within three years after the date of the enactment of this Act. (e) TAKING EFFECT OF PLAN.—